Thank you!
Thanks man!
I understand completely. I think color has its place but like everything else in visual arts, it must be used correctly. Sometimes color is the point of the picture. But sometimes it adds a layer of information that is not needed for the subject - camouflaged as you say.
And speaking of texture:
I took this shot yesterday with the same camera in the Presidio. The forum won’t allow me to post it at its original resolution but I think you can see the texture of every leaf on the trees and on the ground. Well, at least the “impression” of detail - and that’s what counts.
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Totally awesome!!
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No, I didn’t want to risk blinding myself. lol
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You might find this recent discussion interesting? Out of curiosity, what is the diameter of your camera’s pinhole? 
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This is way cool. I didn’t even know that you could still source photo film.
I did my first photography on my dad’s Browning that was obsolete when I first touched it.
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Breath-taking! Thanks for posting this.
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This is the most beautiful of all the photos. It is amazing that you took it with such a simple camera. Great job!
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Seeing your images brought back all the fond memories of my childhood darkroom. The red light, the smell of the chemical baths, the anticipation…
Great work on the camera, and great results!
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That is an interesting post! It’s cool to know that it can make a hole as small as 64 microns! That works out to .064mm. My pinhole is .3mm. That’s a typical size. They hover around .15mm to .4mm - sometimes larger but rarely smaller.For the purposes of a pinhole camera, the pinhole must be made on the thinnest material possible because the thicker the material the more narrow the angle of view will be. It also must be opaque to light, which is why wood and acrylic would not work. I’ve researched the possibility of cutting brass shim with the Glowforge but the consensus was, “do not do it.” Usually the pinhole is made by a needle of a known diameter and piercing a brass or aluminum shim. The hole is then sanded down to get a smooth edge. Size can be checked by scanning and counting the pixels across the diameter. For this first build I used a laser etched pinhole purchased from an optical supply company because I wanted that to be a known quantity. This was, after all a proof of concept and a proof of the math. In the future I will make my own pinholes using the above mentioned method and if something is off, then I know that it was the pinhole and not anything else in the design of the camera. That said, my aim is to get less precise and more unpredictable in hopes of an aesthetic “happy accident.”
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Sure! You can get almost anything. Which Brownie was it? If it used 620 film that was indeed out of production for a long time, but it was revived by different groups. There are also workarounds like re-spooling 120 film on 620 spools (which are available for sale new or old on eBay). Long story short, film is not dead. There is always some way to shoot that old camera.
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Right?! I mean that moment right before the image appears on the paper, or when you see the negative come out of the tank for the first time, some things are special because you have to work for it, because you have to wait for it. Convenience takes the magic away.
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What a cool project! Thanks for the education.
So much of the fundamental understanding is lost. Not just photography, but across the board.
If my phone died I don’t know how many essential numbers I could remember.
Go-To telescopes, no knowledge of declination and right ascension in relation to the celestial equator required. No need to understand that, the machine will do it.
Great pictures you got for your efforts. Thank you for sharing that with us. Been a while since we’ve seen you around here. don’t be a stranger.
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Thank you! Yeah, it really is incredible what you can do with this basic design. This is my first attempt at a pinhole camera and I was blown away by the results. It made me rethink my entire approach to photography. I’m hooked!
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This is soooo cool!
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Thanks. I’ve been making things here and there but honestly the quality of the community’s work is so good I am often afraid to post my work. Since my first ukulele I’ve made another but haven’t posted it. I also made a bunch of obscure photo accessories but again I haven’t put it up because I wasn’t sure if it would resonate. Just shy, I guess. But I was so pumped by this build I could not resist. Cheers.
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Beautiful shot.
The Presidio I presume? The shading of black and white is somehow more expressive than color.
The tree didn’t grow above ground that way, that’s the erosion that has occurred. Those coastal pines and cedars, there’s a visual poetry to them.
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Amazing!
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